Re: Putting livingstons on seperate class-c's

Jason Hatch (zone@berkshire.net)
Fri, 2 May 1997 23:53:26 -0500 (EST)

These are Pm2e2's. I can't just assign IP addresses to the first starting
at xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and the second at xxx.xxx.xxx.31 and so on? I have to
subnet them to 30 IP subnets (which makes sense, but I suck at figuring
out netmasks).

-Jason

On Fri, 2 May 1997, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:

> At 09:20 AM 5/2/97 -0500, Jason Hatch wrote:
> >We're running out of address space here and I wanted to put my portmasters
> >on their own class-c. Is this as simple as setting the assigned
> >address-pool the an IP within that class-c or does something else have to
> >be done? I can still leave the livingston's main IP on the same network
> >its on now, right?
> >
> >As it stands, my router accepts RIP packets from the portmaster, so
> >whenever someone dials in, it adds a route to that IP making the
> >portmaster the gateway.
>
> Keep the ether0's on the same class C as the rest of the network and either
> static route each subnet to the respective PM or use OSPF.
>
> (the other possibility will use the first PM as a gateway for the others,
> but I don't like that method, as it adds a hop)
>
> Are these PM2's or PM3's?
>
> Reminds me, need to finish up a simple OSPF setup page.
>
>
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